This dissertation is a theoretical and art/archival practice-based exploration of aesthetic-affective resistance to neoliberal recuperation of urban space that not only constitutes a physical manifestation of capitalist accumulation by dispossession, but also serves to aesthetic…
From the outset global cities have been primarily seen as outcomes of changes in global economic capitalism. This has led to critical responses arguing for the need to consider more centrally the role of politics in global city formation, and in particular the need to critically…
"Studies of early modern Middle Eastern cities, whether classified as Islamic, Arab, or Ottoman, have stressed the atypical, the idiosyncratic, or the aberrant. This bias derives largely from orientalist presumptions that these cities were in some way substandard or deviant. One…
"Studies of early modern Middle Eastern cities, whether classified as Islamic, Arab, or Ottoman, have stressed the atypical, the idiosyncratic, or the aberrant. This bias derives largely from orientalist presumptions that these cities were in some way substandard or deviant. One…
"Commerce and Justice: Ottoman and Venetian Courts in Istanbul during the Seventeenth Century” analyzes legal disputes and economic transactions between Ottoman and Venetian merchants in Istanbul on a daily basis between 1600 and1620. At that time, the Venetians constituted the …
Due to the inappropriate planning and explosive population growth in urban areas, especially in developing countries, sustainable and disaster-safe urbanization has become the most important challenge for governments. Urbanization presents benefits in different ways but has led …
This project is the result of research into the history of the Queer community in Istanbul and the form and nature of their variety of slang, known within the community as Lubunca. The purpose of this project is threefold: First (section 1) to describe the structure of Lubunca, …
This thesis examines similarities and differences in architecture and city planning in Ankara, Turkey and Baghdad, Iraq, focusing on foreign architects' plans in each city during key moments in the development of each countries' nationalisms (the 1930s in Turkey and the 1950s in…
This study is about peripheral urbanization and urban politics in the Istanbul city-region. Using a multi-disciplinary methodological approach, including archival research, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, this dissertation examines the relationship between the …
This dissertation examines Istanbul as a geographical and historical totality and focuses on four different and integral parts of this totality: its Ottoman past, its dalliances with modern planning attempts, the city's death throes in the face of rabid industrialization efforts…
Globalisation has been a dominant theme in much social science text over the last two decades. According to this literature, although one of the most significant changes in the world economy has been a dramatic increase in the mobility of capital, globalisation is not a purely e…
“Sensing the City” examines the perceived and embodied urban modern sensory experience of 1920s Istanbul and the district of Beyoğlu. Specifically, it explores the concept of the “decadent modern” as a way to address what contemporary critics and Turkish republican scholars have…
The work at hand, discusses from an anthropological viewpoint a grassroots mobilisation in the neighbourhood of Arnavutkoy in Istanbul - Turkey. This mobilisation was the result of the announcement of the construction of a bridge over the Bosphorus straight that would connect th…